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He persuaded the king to send an expedition to America to propagate the recently discovered vaccine against smallpox. Balmis was named head of the expedition, which sailed from Spain in 1804. He traveled to Puerto Rico , Puerto Cabello , Caracas , La Guaira , Havana, Mérida , Veracruz and Mexico City.
During the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, "Pharmacists tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and serums (chiefly against what we call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the etiological agent – and several types ...
This has led to speculation that the Spanish flu pandemic originated in China, [192] [193] as the lower rates of flu mortality may be explained by the Chinese population's previously acquired immunity to the flu virus. [176] [192] In the Guangdong Province it was reported that early outbreaks of influenza in 1918 disproportionately impacted ...
Expedition by Balmis and his collaborators to America Detail of expedition's routes in the Philippines. The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (Spanish: Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna), commonly referred to as the Balmis Expedition, was a Spanish healthcare mission that lasted from 1803 to 1806, led by Dr Francisco Javier de Balmis, which vaccinated millions [dubious ...
In the worldwide 1918 flu pandemic, "physicians tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and sera (chiefly against what we now call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the ...
Swine flu was a boon for the anti-vaccine movement, which had suffered in recent years: Its leading researcher had been discredited, the theorized link between autism and vaccines disproven, and ...
A family in Texas is stupefied after what should have been a simple flu shot ended up sending their 9-year-old daughter to the hospital. Brianna Browning was perfectly healthy in the beginning of ...
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.